First of all, thank you to all of my reviewers, especially VickySo and Jesus.Freak.And.Proud.Of.It.
Last chapter is now up, (one time again, wow). Spoilers for 'The Storm' and 'The Blue Spirit'. This is Aang's secret, hope you like it.
Monk Tao is my character but feel free to use him if you so wish, just send me a note to tell me. I have no idea if beard combs exist, but what the heck.
Lyrics from 'Understand the Dream is Over' by Juliana Theory.
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Aang doesn't have secrets.
Really, he doesn't, he tells everything to Appa, that counts … right?
Okay, so maybe he has some.
Like that time he hid Monk Tao's beard comb in the honey pot and no one knew until they tried to spread it on their toast.
Or how he really felt when the other trainee monks, the boys he thought were his friends, wouldn't let him play the game that he had made possible with his Air scooter trick.
Katara knows why he disappeared, why he ran away when they tried to take him away from Monk Gyatso.
But she can't understand, can't know how much that fisherman's words hit home.
How guilty he feels that he left.
The world was counting on him, and he ran, couldn't cope with being the Avatar. Being twelve shouldn't have mattered, he was the Avatar.
Things were different when the Nations were at peace, values were different.
That makes it harder for the others to understand. They've grown up with the threat of the Fire Nation hanging over them, he grew up with friends from the Fire Nation.
Katara and Sokka can't understand how incredibly lonely he feels sometimes. They have always had each other, even when their Father left and their Mother died.
He went to sleep, woke up 100 years later, and his entire Nation had disappeared.
That's why it had been so important to find a cure when Sokka got sick, and absolutely vital when Katara had caught it as well. To lose one more friend would have been devastating, but to lose both of them … they were all he had left.
But these aren't secrets, just lack of understanding, he doesn't tell them because they couldn't understand.
Because Aang doesn't have secrets.
Really.
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Here is my new disposition.
You're about to understand.
Our theory is only obvious to the sceptical,and at the bitter end.
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You're staring at a white page and the print is plain to see.
Now turn the page and read what's written.
It's your history.
Do you understand? The dream is over.
You haven't slept in years.
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